Jean Brunhes (, born 25 October 1869,

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

, France-died 25 August 1930,

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the Parisian area, located from its Kilometre zero, centre. It is a Subprefectures in ...

) was a French

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

. His most famous book is ''La géographie humaine'' (''Human Geography''). He was the director of '' The Archives of the Planet'', an international photographic project sponsored by Albert Kahn. ''Ruskin et la Bible: pour servir à l'histoire d'une pensée'' (1901) is a popular book by Jean and Henriette Brunhes.

References

*Numa Broc, Regards sur la géographie française de la Renaissance à nos jours, Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 1995. *Musée Albert Kahn, Boulogne, Jean Brunhes autour du monde, regards d'un géographe / regards de la géographie, Vilo, Paris, 1993, 348 p. *Jean-Louis Tissier, Brunhes (Jean), in Jacques Julliard, Michel Winock (dir.), Dictionnaire des intellectuels français, Paris, Seuil, 1996, p. 195-196. *Paul Claval, André-Louis Sanguin (éd.), La Géographie française à l'époque classique (1918-1968), L'Harmattan, 1996. *https://books.google.com/books?id=G9ckCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=jean+brunhes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXh97A-6_bAhVQbn0KHSXiAssQ6AEIPDAE#v=onepage&q=jean%20brunhes&f=false 1869 births 1930 deaths French geographers Scientists from Toulouse 19th-century geographers 20th-century geographers Human geographers {{Geographer-stub